Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWNo other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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To think is to differ.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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